This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davies, Alban, Hughes, Evans Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HNR.2ACEB/1412 Message Board Post: My mother's Davies family sometimes referred to themselves as Back or Dark Welsh and I had always thought that I referred to Pict ancestors, dark , small people of the Brittish Isles. Recently I've been researching possible Cherokee ancestors of my father's family and have come across the terms Black Irish and Black Dutch which people with European and Native ancestry are called. There are also the Blackfeet, people of European and Eastern US Native American ancestry - not to be confused with the Blackfoot tribe of Plains Indians. According to the family trees i've seen all of the ancestors of my grandparents, Alban Alvan Davies and Harriet Hughes Hughes (yes that was her name) came from Wales in the early to mid 1800"s and settled in OH. In old family photos some of the people look like they could be Native American. Are there other DAvies families that referred to themselves as Black Welsh? Do these families have stories of Native American ancestors?